7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival

The 7th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival was a film festival held in Yerevan, Armenia from July 11 to 18, 2010. This edition of the festival was dedicated to the anniversaries Arni Verno and Atom Egoyan.^[1]

Among the filmmakers who were present to present their films at the festival were Theodoros Angelopoulos, Fatih Akın and Claudia Cardinale.

Awards

International Feature Competition

• Golden Apricot for Best Feature Film: Kosmos directed by Reha Erdem
• Silver Apricot Special Prize for Feature Film: My Joy directed by Sergey Loznitsa

International Documentary Competition

• Golden Apricot for Best Documentary Film: Together directed by Pavel Kostomarov
• Silver Apricot Special Prize for Documentary Film: The Woman with Five Elephants directed by Vadim Jendreyko

Armenian Panorama Competition

• Golden Apricot for Best Armenian Film: The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia directed by Arman Yeritsyan and Inna Sahakyan
• Silver Apricot Special Prize for Armenian Film: Down Here directed by Comes Chahbazian
• Special Mention: Uncle Valya directed by Nikolay Davtyan

Other Awards & Prizes

• FIPRESCI Jury Award: Jasmila Žbanić for On the Path
• Ecumenical Jury Award: Suren Babayan for Don't Look Into the Mirror
• Ecumenical Jury Special Recommendation: Aleksei Popogrebsky for How I Ended This Summer
• Hrant Matevosyan Prize: Marat Sargsyan for Lernavan
• British Council Armenia Best Short Film Award: Lernavan directed by Marat Sargsyan

See also

• 2010 in film

References